bug#53629: 27.1: add option to change face `mode-line-buffer-id` when mode-line is inactive

[José Júnior]

I don't think I can. I've tried changing the face options, but I didn't find a way to customize it the way I want, with different backgrounds or font-weight. For example, I can't set the `mode-line-buffer-id` of `mode-line` face to have bold font and the `mode-line-inactive` to have a font without bold.

I'm not sure how I can customize the way I want with `mode-line-buffer-identification` yet, so maybe that's why having another face to customize the inactive state still makes sense. I also found this discussion: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/10033/change-mode-line-buffer-id-face-for-inactive-windows - but I don't think there's a solution there.

On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 5:33 PM Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:

José Júnior <jjnilton@gmail.com> writes:

> Yes, it's exactly that. If I want to set a different background color
> for the `mode-line-buffer-id` when the buffer is inactive, I can't do
> it with the faces options of the `mode-line` group.

Can't you achieve that by redefining `mode-line-buffer-id' to inherit
from mode-line-inactive with the proper shadowings?

If that's not sufficient, you can alter
`mode-line-buffer-identification' to return whatever you wish, so I
don't think another face here is necessary.

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